The 34thFrench Cinepanorama9/12
AF Mediatheque
Cat Among the Pigeons
礙手礙腳
2002 / Color 彩色 / 103 mins
English Subtitles 英文字幕
Adapted from Georges Feydeau's text
改編自 Georges Feydeau 的劇作
Film and Play Director
電影及話劇導演：Georges Lavaudant
Cast 演員:
Gilles Arbona, Hervé Briaux, Natacha Cashman
Following An Italian Straw Hat , Georges Lavaudant takes on Feydeau,
the leading comic figure of the French repertoire.
This film of his production
of Un fil à la patte penetrates through the fun and games to focus
on how the director interpreted the famous “mechanism” characteristic of Feydeau's
language. As Lavaudant says himself he took a naive and refreshing dive into
Feydeau's writing, going with the flow of the extraordinary efficiency of a
language that zips along faster than the situations and actors, taking off virtually
into its own universe. A language that produces side-splitting laughter with
a staggering sense of the unexpected. We see this unstoppable mechanism unfurl
in front of our eyes with its precision, poetry and tense undertones as it throws
lovers, mistresses and cuckolds into a dizzy whirlpool of strategy, treachery
and misunderstandings, traps, twists and turns in perpetual, seemingly never-ending
motion.
繼《意大利草帽》後，
Georges Lavaudant 這次挑戰法國喜劇界重量級人物 Feydeau 。
Lavaudant 把舞台劇《礙手礙腳》製作成電影，在這影片中，
Lavaudant 透過玩樂與遊戲來集中表達他如何詮釋 Feydeau 的戲劇語言中那著名的 “ 機械性 ” 特質。如 Lavaudant 自己所言，他是帶
? 清新純真的心情跳進 Feydeau 的文章中，任由那洶湧澎湃，如急流般流暢的語言的動力所牽引，簡直是身不由己地衝向那屬如語言本身的宇宙中。那是一種使人笑爆肚，震撼力驚人的語言。那無法阻止的機械性既準確又帶點詩情畫意地在我們眼前逐一展現的，接連出現的計謀、背叛、誤會和不停的兜兜轉轉把情人、情婦、戴綠帽的丈夫等人物捲進了一個使人暈眩的漩渦中。